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Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-12-31
THAT mOTHER's BIBLE.
John Ktnney's Altsle s.a-y - gs
Felt A w fully Uneasy.

John Kinney, of the firm of Kinney
" Ransome, tells little story about
himself which may strike a familiar
vein in some other mans experience.
" When l was a young chap" says
he, al got the Pixies Peak fever
along with lot more of the men and
boys OF our town; and as was pretty
hard to manage around home, and as
some staid old friends of my fathers
were going to the new gold country, it
was concluded that should 90 with
them. When we were all ready to
shut my trunk and lock it my mother,
who, bless her, was more than half
afraid to have me go into that rough
country, brought handsome clasp
Bible out OF her bedroom and laid it
in my trunk on top of the other
things. 80 Now, Johnnie. said she,
p! ! want you to promise me that you
will read this Bible every day?'
"' Of course will, mother 1 said.
9 will read it every chance l have
as And, Johnnie, said she, Il want
you to study we'll the Sermon on the
Mount. 1t will do you good. You
will find it in St. Matthew and st.
Mark, and st. Luke and st. John, but
the best is in st. Matthew. You will
read it often, wont you, Johnnie
" | promised everything, and in
tended to keep my promise, too. But
Gnnahnur I YntnrliI T ,,ouor o~o~ol
the Bible; never even undid the clasp.
After l had been at Pixies Peak some
time, and spent nearly all the money
that my father had given to one of his
old friends for me. l started with
what was left to come home, but they
left me at the Missouri Crossing and
| had terrible time from that on. l
ran out of money and spent all l could
borrow on such valuables as could
pawn. would have sold that Bible
dozen times if / could have found
anybody to buy it. Well, after heap
OF walking and all sorts OF hardship, l
finally reached home. After the kiss
ing and the talking was over my
mother began unpacking the little
handbag | had brought back in the
place of the trunk took away. In
the bottom OF it she found the little
clasp Bible.
''' Your Bible looks as if you
hadn't used it much, she said.
"' Yes said l, / took very good
care of it..
"Did you read it, Johnnie?' she
asked
"'Of course 1 did; read it every
day
"' You read the Sermon on the
Mount then, did your she asked, with
kind of peculiar expression in her
eyes.
"' Yes, very often.'
"Then she opened the Bible to st.
Matthew and there lay the $40 bill she
had put between the leaves. There
was a $40 bill, too, in each st. Mark,
st. Luke and st. John-$50 in all
and wonld have given every cent OF it
to have been out OF that room.
eel told you st. Matthew had the
best account Of the Sermon on the
Mount was all my mother said about
the matter" ."-Chicago News.
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mo S69,
Application for a. Patent.
UNITED STATES LASD OFFICE. ,

EUREKA, Nevsia. Nov. %, 1887. I
NOTICE Is HE.EBY GIVEN THAI
IN Eugene N. Robinson, whose PostofHca
address 10 Seltgman, Nevada, has this day fled
his application fer pate ent for fifteen hundred
linear feet of the Pursei No. . mine or vein,
bearing silver, with surface ground siX hundred
feet In width, situated IN White Pine Mining
District, county OF White Pine, and State of Ne
vada, and designated by the field d-note, and off,
cal plat on Ale in this Office as lot No. 7S, in
Township 16 north, range 81 east Of Mount
Diablo meridian. The exterior boundaries Of
said lot No. rs being as follows:
Beginning at post marked No l, U. $. snr
vey No. IS, the same being post No. o: q, s.
survey No. II, Pursel lode, and the original
location corner of this claim whence the sec
tion corner common to sections 9, 10. Is and l6,
township l6 north, raEge 81 east, Mount Dl-
ablo meridian, bears S. So deg. 4s min. W.,
2,776 feet, and the mouth Of tunnel Ns. l, on
the Pursell lode. bears north 80 deg. W, s4l
feet; thence running first course 81, 2st deg.
T., All feet, to post marked No 2, U, =, survey
No. rs. the same being identical with The orig
inal location corner; thence second course s.,
124 deg. E !, 1,CSl feet, to post marked Nc 3, U
S. survey No 7S, the same being identical vita
the original location corner; thence Sd couEse
8 .6la deg W, 623 $40 feet to post marked No.
4, U. s. survey No. u, and Identical with tue
original location corner; thence fourth course n,
l2f deg. w., ,169 feet, to post marked No, ., U.
s survey No. 78, and identical with the original
location corner; thence fifth course n.
aSi deg. W 1888 feet to post marked No. 6, q:
9. survey No. 70. and identical witn the original
location corner. the same being post No. 2 OF
II y. survey No. II, Pursell lode, and thence
sixth course N. 6l3 deg. e., 900 feet, along u.
S. survey No. II, Pursel lode, to post No. l, the
place of beginning.
Magnetic variation, l6a deg. east. containing
20 68- 100 acres.
The location Of this mine is recorded in the
Recorders Office OF White Pine Mining District,
in book A of page SO.
The adjoining claimants are on the north the
Pursell, on tire south the Dead Broke.
Any and all persons claiming adversely any
portion of said Purcell No mine or surface
gr und are required to fi.e their adverse claims
with the Register OF the United States Land
Office at Eureka, in the State Of Nevada, dur
ing the sixty days period OF publication hereof,
or they will be barred by virtue OF the pIovis-
ions OF the Statute.
d. II. HALL, Register.
1t is hereby ordered that the foregoing netice
of application for patent be published fer the
period of sixty days (tea consecutive weeks, in
the Eureka Sen NrINEL, q weekly newspaper
published at Eureka, Eureka county, Nevada.
d3-60d d. H. HALL. Register.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-12-31

A rather laughable story is that
anent the origin OF blue tinted paper,
once so much in vogue for CONNER
cial uses. The wife OF an English
paper manufacturer, named William
East, going into the factory on the do
mestic wash-day with an old-fashioned
bluing bag in her hand, accidentally
let the bag and its contents fall into a
vat full of pulp. She thought moth
ing of the accident, and said nothing
about it either to her husband or his
workmen. Great was the astonish-
ment OF the latter when the paper
turned out d peculiar blue color, while
the master was wroth at what he re-
garded as gross carelessness on the
part OF some OF the hands. Ills wife
wise woman-kept her own coun-
sci. The lot of paper was regarded as
unstable, and was stored for foul
years. AT length East consigned it tc
his London correspondent, with in
structons to sell it for what it would
bring. The unlucky paper was ac-
cepted as happily designed novelty,
and was disposed of in open market
at a considerable advance in price.
Judge of Mr.. East's surprise when he
received from his agent an order for a
large invoice OF the despised blue pa
per, Here was pretty dilemma; he
was totally ignorant Of the manner in
which the paper had become blue ii,
color, and in his perplexity he men
toned the matter to his wife. She
promptly enlightened her lord; he in
turn kept the simple process secret,
and was for years the monopolist OF
the blue commercial paper manufac-
ture.-Science.
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A NOTED CHARACTER.
SDnnoHuer, Who aided In Con.
ViCtsng airs. Surratt, in an I'm.
auyiable Role.

SDnn3Huar, Who Aided in Con.
victsng airs. Surrati, in an I'm.
enviable Role.
The Baltimore, Nd, letter to the st.
Louis Globe-Democrat, says: Seven
months ago Benjamin Spandauer, who
was one of the most important agents
in procuring the conviction of Mrs.
Mary Surratt in 1865 for participation
in the conspiracy resulting in the as
sassnation of President Lincoln, was
arrested for alleged conspiracy in a
noted divorce case here. He was in
dicted for alleged manufacturing OF
testimony. The suit was that of Mrs.
Johanna Jensen against her husband.
Judge Fisher decided the case in the
wife's favor, and awarded her alimony.
In his decision the Judge said he be-
lieved the evidence submitted by her
husband, for whom Spandauer was a
leading witness, was tissue of false
hoods from beginning to end. Span
dauer was released on bail, and re-
Gently his case came up, and States
Attorney Kerr entered a nolle pros. in
the case OF John Jensen, the husband,
who was indicted with Spandauer,
and also the latter. The divorce suit
has been finally settled. The States
attorney was OF the opinion that the
evidence in the case was not suffi-
cient to warrant going to trial. Span
dauer had several times before been
arrested on similar charges. At the
trial OF Mrs. Mary Surratt in May
and June, 1865, Spandauer and
Louis j. Welchman-the latter's evil
dence being OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
that Mrs. Surratt, who then kept a
boarding-house, at which Wilkes
Booth, Harold, Spangler and others
met, had frequently been in the
room where the conferences of the
conspirators were held, and thus
connected her with the plot. This
was the evidence that convicted her.
For number OF years preceding
| the war Spandaur and Welchman were
| lost sight of. Nothing more was
heard OF the latter until his death in
Philadelphia, in great destitution,
three years ago. Spandauer appeared
in Baltimore about four years ago, and
first loomed up to public notice again
by persuading Heinrich Muhla, a
German, that the latter was one OF
ten heirs to an estate in Germany or
England, valued at $3,000,000, and
agreed to collect Muhla's share for
percentage. Muhla advanced him
500, and Spandauer in all obtained
about l,500 from him. When
Muhla found that the estate was a
myth he had Spandauer arrested
and sent to prison for three years
Spandauer is an old man now, ant
not likely to figure before the publ,
| arain
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TIE CHINESE EVIL.
Cleveland Becoming Aroused TO lts
Importance.


A Washington dispatch of Dec. %
says The Attorney General thinks
that Congress should see the report Of
Special Agent Chalmers on the ad-
ministration of the Chinese Restric-
ton Act in California, if any new
remedial legislation is to be adopted
at the present session OF Congress.
This report is before the President,
and he will examine it during the hol-
idav recess. The Attorney General
can make no report to Congress, but if
President Cleveland desires to do so,
Chalmers report will be an important
addenda to his message. The Presi-
dent is just becoming aroused to the
fact that the great question on the Pa
cific Coast is the prevention OF Chi
nese immigration, and he feels dis
posed to take up and seriously con-
slider the problem, that the adminis-
tration has hitherto almost entirely
ignored. The sensational reports
that Federal officers appointed dur
ing the present administration will
be removed, or that a movement to
impeach the Federal Judges will be
encouraged by the President or At
torney General, have no foundation.
The opposition OF Collector Ilager
to the construction of the anti
Chinese laws as interpreted by
Judges Sawyer and Hoffman is at
least beginning to bear fruit in
Washington, and there is now hope
that the President may range HIM
self in line with the Custom author
tiles as against the Federal Judges
on this question.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-12-31

Once upon a time an Alderman in a
certain city went to the Mayor thereof
and declared his willingness to make
affidavit that certain other Aldermen
were guilty of jobbery. He felt that
such corrupt officials could not be pub
lished and punished too soon.
Ah-exactly !" replied the Mayor,
:" but you are little late. Those very
officials have already furnished me
proofs that you engineered all the jobs
and received the biggest whack.'
"Then, sir" exclaimed the boss
boodler, as he drew himself up in all
his native dignity, '' shall at once go
to Canada in order to prove my inno-
cence and establish my integrity. Ad-
dress me at Toronto"
Moral-If he hadn't gone the Mayor
vould have had to.--Detroit Free
Press.
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One ThOusnnd OvercOats Given
Away.

In New York, few days ago, a
clothing firm gave away 1000 over
coats to poor boys. Forty policemen
we're necessary to keep back the
great crowd of lads which surged in
pillows against the big plate glass
windows. One little chap handed a
floor walker dinay note, saying
that the bearer was the son OF a
wild wv. "Who wrote this" in
ouircd the foor-walker. " Me fad
der" innocently replied the boy; but
he got his coat just the same The
1000 overcoats melted before that
army like snowfiakcs on an oven.
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WHITE FINE COUNTY ITEMS.
Items OF Interest Clipped from the
white Pine News Of Dec. II.


Sol Hip tells us that his brother
Fred is now in better health than
for several years, and suffering from
no ailment.
j. M. Natter, q former well-known
citizen of White Pine, is now night
watchman at Tuscarora.
The Weber Bros. have taken down
the Grand Army Hall and are ship
ping the lumber to Ely, where they
will erect building.
Hon. Sam Liddle writes us from
San Francisco that he will start East
about New Years, and perhaps be
absent six months.
Wednesday morning was the coolest
Of the season, the mercury in front
Of Felsenthal's store indicating II de-
grees below zero at daylight.
Mrs. Peaslee and her two children,
at the Argus mill, are down with
measles. At last accounts they were
all getting along nicely.
John Martin, Of Ward, has Sc
cured the contract from the Martin
White Company to sink 100-foot
shaft on the Young America ground.
He has started in on the work.
James Sampson and Attorney F.
X. Murphy passed through from
Spring Valley Thursday en- route for
Eureka. We learn that their mis-
sion was to secure proof Of Mr.
SIMPSONS citizenship in this county,
on which depends the perpetuity or
dissolution OF the attachment on his
property.
HAMILTON.
The old schoolhouse of Eberhardt,
relic of former prosperous times,
which was falling in, is being taken
down.
We are sorry to state that our
townsman, Geo. w. Halstead, is ly-
ing seriously i'll at Seligman, his
present place OF residence.
Our former resident, w. E. Landon,
one OF us from away back in 1868, is
reported to have died in t.,e Elko
county hospital, on his return here
from trip to California.
AS should naturally be expected at
this time of the year, it is quite cold
here, but otherwise pleasant. In this
high mountain town, at no time
has the thermometer during the
present Winter touched as low
as you report at your town and
other portions OF the State in your
last issue.
Mike Cohen of Ely was married tc
Miss Philippine Morris of Eureka al
| the residence of Justice Munro last
Sunday evening. Only small mum.
ber OF invited friends witnessed the
ceremony.
While there is 50 much sickness in
the surrounding country, the health o.
all the Elyites remains good. The
only disease prevalent is consump
tion-of grub. 1t is only feared by
the restaurants.
| William Horton, an old esteemed
resident of Duck Creek, has moved t.
lower White River in Nye county
where he has bought ranch and viii
permanently reside. White Pine
county loses a good citizen by his de
parture.
Our gold mine is reported to be
looking fine. Quite large body O
high grade ore was recently found
which continues to improve as work
progresses. There is no doubt bu
some large shipments OF bullion vii
be made when the mill starts uT
| again
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-12-31
A LUCKY MlLl.INEHl.
Ess Fabulous vaiue oT sser Prop.
erly in Kansas city.

A well-known Cincinnatian was
over in Kansas City opening his eyes
to the almost fabulous stories of accu-
mulated wealth which are there on
everybody's tongue. He tells OF one
lady who was formerly milliner in
Kansas City ten or fifteen years ago.
She began in Kansas City the busi-
ness she has followed in Kentucky,
and was more or less successful until
an old mud-hole on one OF the streets
OF the city fell to her in liquidation of
81 800 debt. This the lady accepted
with great deal of reluctance and
with the shedding of many tears, since
she did not think the property to be
worth half the money it had cost her.
She however rallied from the discour-
agement and refused d cash offer for
the property, an offer which amounted
to little over half the ~, 500.
About a year ago the New York
Mutual Life Insurance Company be-
gan casting about Kansas City for a
site on which to locate a $4,000, 900
building. The property owned by the
milliner, once mud-hole, was Oh a
corner, seventy feet on one street
and eighty on another. They pur-
chased lots on each side of this cor
ner and then had a lot in the shape OF
capital L. They wanted her lot, and
offered her $125,0OO for it. She re-
fused, and they kept raising the offer
until tba1, roo obo1 tho apcrr,o,,c c,,,,
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New &O(1a Fields.

The Worlds Cape Town correspond
ent, under date OF November 10, writ
ing about the discoveries OF gold in
the Transyaal, says hundreds are leav-
ing by every coastwise steamer lor
Durham and the new gold fields OF
Barbeton and WitwateIrandt. Most
OF the new arrivals are Englishmen,
with sprinkling of Californians and
Australians. During the next five
years the Transvaal, Swaziland, Zulu
land and Matabele county gold fields
are going to astonisl the world. Cali
fornia and Australia in their flush
days will be eclipsed by the discover
les and output OF gold in the South
African country, and that at no very
distant day.
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w HITE PINE.
Col. Grandlcmeyer Boosts the Old
Camp.


The Examiner Of recent date has
the following interview with Colonel
Joseph Grandelmeyer, the widely
known mineralogical scientist and min
ing expert. The Colonel has stood by
White Pine through all the years OF
her existence. His faith is as bound
less still as at any time i'll the past.
This is the way the Examiner quotes
him
Nineteen years ago Joseph Grandel-
never went to White Pine, the new
silver district of Nevada. In two or
three months he saw it arise from a
wilderness to thriving mining section
of 35 900 people, nearly all OF whom
were centered at the town of White
Pme. the famous Eberhardt mine
was struck, which yielded from sin
Gle deposit 740 tons of ore that netted
81 100000. White Pine was remote,
however, machinery was hard to get
in and work in the hard granite neces-
sarily slow.
"Things have veered around again,
lnOuSU, SlIu MI. oItillltlIilCyCl WIZ
had arrived in town and was telling a
reporter about it at the Lick yester-
day. "The Salt Lake and Los Ange-
les Railroad is coming our way, and
all White Pine is on the quivive in
consequence OF it. l am down here
now to meet some New York parties,
to the end of building a smelter there.
We have quartz mills, but we need a
furnace. l am interested with ex-
Congressman Thomas Wren in several
properties. Eugene N. Robinson OF
New York has 100 or 120 men at work
in his mines ON the west slope OF
White Pine mountain, at Seligman.
He is also building reduction plant
that will cost from 100000 to $3.50, 900.
1t will be finished about March l.
"The depreciation of silver has
hurt us some, but the road will reju-
venate us generally White Pine is
$50 miles due south OF Elko, but it is
but 92 from Palisade and AZ from Eu'
reka -
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NEVADA AND HEB CRITICS.
A Good Word from Some Outside
CNMtempOr aries.

COMtem pOr aries.
The Boston Herald had an article of
abuse OF Nevada. The Leadville (Col.)
Chronicle seeing it came to our de-
tense in these words:
However, this "rotten borough :"
has only been State a matter OF
twenty-three years, and yet she has
added to the nations wealth about
$125 ,O0O, 900 in gold and silver bullion.
Fairly well for a young thing. And
this amount would have been much
greater still but for the persistent war
fare which the charming Boston man
and his friends have made against
silver.
Then Charlie Goodwin went
alter them through the columns OF
the Salt Lake Tribune in this vigorous
manner
One deposit alone on the Comstock
gave up $1l6,000,000; the great lead
has yielded quite $3.50, 900 and the
State more than $500, 100000. The
Herald talks of Nevada not from any
knowledge of the State or its people,
but because its editor imagines that it
is a sign of brilliancy now and then
to air his own ignorance under thin
mask Of Boston culchur." He talks
of Nevada being rotten borough" J"
lie borrows that expression from old
d anaof the Sun. He does not know
the fact, but it is a fact all the same,
that while the city OF Boston polls four
times as many votes as the State OF
Nevada. the amount OF money neces-
sary to influence an election in Ne
Nada would make Boston give an
overwhelming vote for annexation to
Canada. Since Professor Sullivan
was presented to the Prince OF Wales
the manners OF Boston people have
become simply insutferable.
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Notice TO Delinquent
Taxpayers.
COUNTY AUDITORS OFFICE, /
EtrDrrA Cnr,-ry Nav

COUNTY AUDITORS OFFICE, /
EUREKA COUNTY. New.
ny Office is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
~ Delinquent Tax List for the year 1887,
containing all delinquencies where the amount
OF the Delinquent Tax, exclusive of Poll Taxes,
and penalties exceeds the sum OF Three Hun
dred Dollars, has been deposited with the Dis
trict or Prosecuting Attorney, ard that unless
the Delinquent Taxes therein specified are paid
to the Treasurer as oficio Tax Receiver,
within twenty (20l days from the publication of
this notice acton will be commenced by the
District or Prose suting Attorney for the collec-
ton of said taxes ana costs.
W. s. BEARD, County Auditor.
Eureka, New, Dec s, 1887. d10-td
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mo. S6s.l
Application for a Patent.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Erp-u. Na,,J, Nov or IA

UNITED STATES LAND OEFlUE, I
EUREKA, Nevada, Nov. 25, 18 7. I
NOTICE rs HEREBY GIVEN THAT
IN Eugene N, Robinson. whose Postofice ad-
dress is Seliglnan Nevada, has this day filed his
application for o patent for fifteen hundred
linear feet of tbs Pugsell miDe or vein, bearing
silver, with surface ground six hundred feet in
width, situated in White Pine Mining Dis
trict, county of White Pine, and State Of Ne
vada and designated by the feld-notes and
official plat Oh flo in this Office as lot No. H. in
Township l6 north, range 81 cast. of Mount
piabIc meridian. The exterior boundaries of
said lot No. " being IS follows:
Beginning at q post marked No. l, U. +. sur
vey No. II, the same being Identical with the
original location corner. whence section corner
common tn sections g. 10, Is and Is, township Ii
H., ranga 81 E., Mount Diablo meridian, bears
q. SO deg, AZ min. W, 2,776 feet. and the
mouth Of tunnel No. on this lode bears N. 50
deg. W 641 feet thence running 1t course
8, 6)a deg. W eco feet, to p 81 marked No 3
o. .. surrey No. H. the same being the original
location corner; thence second course ~, zSt
deg. W 500 feet to post marked NO. s. U. S.
survey No. II, the same being identical with
the original location corner; theuc third course
N, 614 deg. e., 6n0 feet, to post marked No. 4,
U. 8 survey No II, and identical with the orig
tnal location corner. and thence fourth course
s., 2st deg: T.. 1850 feet to post No l. the
place Of beginning.
Magnetic variation 169 deg east, containing
90 65 100 acres.
The location of this mine Is recorded in the
Recorders Office CT White Pine Mining District,
In BOOK OF psgo SO.
The adjoinng claimants are on the north the
CRUSADER, on the south the Pursell No. 2.
Any and oil rer ons claiming adversely any
portion Of said Pursell mine or surface
ground are required to tile their adverse claims
with the Register of the United States Lend
Office at Eureks, in the State OF Nevada, during
the sixty days period of publication hereof, OF
they will be barred by virtue of the provisions Of
| the Statute.
D. II HALL, Register.
1t is hereby ordered that the foregoing notice
| OF application for patent be published for the
period of sixty days (teG consecutive weeksl, in
| the Eureka SENTINEL, weekly newspaper
| published at Eureka Eureka county, Nevada.
d3-50d D. H HALL, Register